Strange but True Stories from Japan

by Seward, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780804821308
• ISBN10: 0804821305
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Tuttle Pub

Author Biography

Jack Seward has written forty-four books on Japan in both English and Japanese, including three Charles E. Tuttle titles--Outrageous Japanese (1991), Hari-Kiri (1968), and Cave of the Chinese Skeletons (1964)--and his best-known work, The Japanese (William Morrow, 1972). He studied Japanese at the US Army language school at the University of Michigan. He was sent to Japan during the Occupation as an army officer and later served as a CIA agent. He remained in Japan for twenty-five years as a businessman and writer. Seward is a regular contributor to Nichibei Journal and Tokyo Weekender, and he lives in Houston, TX.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Lionhearted Women	p. 1
Americans Serving Time in Japanese Prisons	p. 11
Phallic Follies	p. 21
The Mass Hara-kiri at Kamakura	p. 31
A Second Israel?	p. 39
An Unusual Character from the Past	p. 51
Three Extraordinary Geisha	p. 59
Children at War	p. 73
One or Two Dozen Tokyo Roses	p. 83
Xmas Paint Your Harts	p. 99
Manga: The Literature of the Nation?	p. 109
The Reincarnation of Jesus Christ in Japan?	p. 117
Night Crawling, Eel Traps, and Retreaded Hymens	p. 129
Gun Control, Japanese Style	p. 137
Alexander Romanov: Grand Duke or Great Comedian?	p. 145
Z - Z - Z - Z	p. 153
A Kitten Battles the Traffic at the Iigura-cho Intersection	p. 161
What Food These Morsels Be	p. 169
An American Apostate Humanizes the Emperor	p. 193
The Supreme Hero of Modern Japan	p. 205
The First American Teacher of English in Japan	p. 215
Deadly Metal into the Abdomen	p. 223
Japan Tests an Atom Bomb	p. 233
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